Ahn Myeong-chul

Ahn Myeong-chul was a North Korean prison guard who later defected to South Korea and was an important person in revealing the atrocities carried out in North Korean concentration camps.

Biography
Ahn Myeong-chul was a Korean People's Army soldier who was sent to various prison camps, including the Hoeryong concentration camp and Onsong concentration camp, from the 1980s to the 1990s. However, he grew tired of the atrocities committed by the North Korean government and fled to South Korea, defecting from the Juche regime. In South Korea, he revealed the secrets of North Korea. He recalled that thousands of prisoners in the prison camps were arrested for interacting with Christianity, which the government saw as subversive; he also remembered that the prisoners looked like skeletons and dwarves that were left in ditches for rats to eat. In the 2015 documentary The Propaganda Game by Alvaro Longora, he said that North Korea educated its children about the Korean War by saying that the Americans started it, saying that the Americans from South Korea and the North Koreans in the north met at the Korean DMZ to take over Korea and skirmished many times after colliding there.